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This Friday (12 July), we'll be holding #LABCDay to fundraise for LABC’s chosen charity of the year – Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity. Rainbow Trust provides bespoke support for families who have a child with a serious illness. Offering the whole family support, regardless of diagnosis…
Balconies can be a great addition to your home: they add extra light and ventilation to a room, provide some outside space and are a great way to take in the scenery. The right balcony can be a real selling point and make your home more attractive to prospective purchasers.
They need to be…
Any walls that are not part of a house or extension are unlikely to be controlled by building regulations unless these provide support to the foundations of another building.
Many local councils will have restrictions on the height of walls and fences and you should check with your local…
SAP 10 is cited in Approved Document L Volume 1: Dwellings (2012 edition) for England and is the recognised calculation methodology for assessing compliance of new dwellings with Requirement L1 of the Building Regulations. What is it all about and what are the recent changes to SAP?
What is SAP…
LABC launched the 'Construction Professionals' Standards Hub' at the beginning of the year to provide a new information source for a wide range of professionals across the industry. The Hub's objective is to keep construction industry firms and practitioners up to date with the latest industry…
LABC has welcomed the Construction Leadership Council’s report ‘Greening Our Existing Homes’ which calls for a national retrofit strategy for the UK’s 28 million homes. Council members have signed an open letter to Business Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, urging the Government to incorporate the…
Did you know that underpinning of foundations is notifiable work under the Building Regulations? You must make an application to the building control authority in all cases, without exception.
If the underpinning works are to be carried out adjacent or in close proximity to another existing…
"Croudace Homes are always keen to work alongside the local Building Control departments and the quality that has been produced has in no small way been aided by the relationship that we have had with Arun District Council and Basingstoke and Deane under the Partner Authority Scheme." …
Recent advice from the Independent Expert Advisory Panel, set up by the government in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, notes that the risk of unsafe HPL cladding systems on residential buildings of 18m or more, is not as high as the risk of unsafe ACM Category 3 panel systems (ACM with…
The UK has set an ambitious target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Homes are a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions responsible for 15% of the UK's total emissions in 2018. What's more – unlike other sectors such as business, transport and energy supply – residential homes saw…